Booklog: Jan & Feb, 2011

I posted my massive 2010 reading list in January. I'm splitting it up this year, I'll prolly post every couple of months or so.

01/10/2011    Fuzzy Bones by William Tuning
01/15/2011    Dune (audiobook) by Frank Herbert
01/17/2011    The Inheritor by Marion Zimmer Bradley
01/19/2011    Moonfire (ss) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
                    Dark Satanic by Marion Zimmer Bradley
01/20/2011    Goblin Market (ss) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
01/22/2011    Witch Hill by Marion Zimmer Bradley
01/24/2011    Ghostlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley (& Rosemary Edghill)
01/25/2011    The Bloom County Library Volume Two by Berkeley Breathed
01/28/2011    Dune Messiah (audiobook) by Frank Herbert
01/29/2011    Alone (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Maze (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    A Matter of Taste (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Magic, Magic Carpet (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Unharmonious Word (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Hot Squat (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Can Do (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Boomerang (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Hard Luck Story (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Bureaucrat (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Homing Tantalus (na) by A. Bertram Chandler
01/30/2011    The Left-Handed Way (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Moon of Madness (na) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Mother of Invention (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
01/31/2011    Witchlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley (& Rosemary Edghill)
02/01/2011    No More Sea (nv) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Pool (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Next in Line (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    Why? (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
02/02/2011    The Trouble With Them (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Successors (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
                    The Ship From Nowhere (na) by A. Bertram Chandler
02/04/2011    The Window (ss) by A. Bertram Chandler
02/19/2011    Gravelight by Marion Zimmer Bradley (& Rosemary Edghill)
02/23/2011    Exploring Space: 1999 by by John Kenneth Muir
                    Destination: Moonbase Alpha by
02/27/2011    Children of Dune (audiobook) by Frank Herbert
03/03/2011    Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley (& Rosemary Edghill)

Currently reading:
The Fall of Atlantis by Marion Zimmer Bradley (and David R. Bradley)
 God Emperor of Dune (audiobook) by Frank Herbert

I read a bunch of A. Bertram Chandler stories out of old pulps at the end of January/beginning of February. These were requested by an internet correspondent and fellow Chandler fan who doesn't have the pulps they appear in. I was helping him determine if any of thees stories were part of Chandler's "Rim Worlds Universe." Mostly they aren't

I also read the 7 books in MZB's interconnected "Colin/Claire" and 'Shadow's Gate" seria. I really enjoyed most of the books. The Shadow's Gate books were ghostwritten by Rosemary Edghill (Marion was quite ill for most of the '90's and, as best I can determine, didn't complete any novels on her own after 1989 or so.) After reading Heartlight, I jumped back to read The Fall of Atlantis, which apparently takes place in the same universe (just several thousand years earlier.) I expect I'll tackle The Mists of Avalon and its various sequels after that -- they also takes place in that same universe. The sequels, which were ghostwritten by/continued by Diana L. Paxson, have been declining in sales, and the publisher hasn't asked for another one, so that series looks done.

There are still about a half-dozen Darkover titles in "to be read" pile. They'll come next.

I might try and catch up on some Star Trek titles after that. I'm a couple years behind, but nothing has COMPELLED me to read it over the last few years, so who knows. I want to read the "Typhon Pact" books, but the reviews on the first couple were less-than-stellar, so I might skip them and only read the last 2.